RFC: Alternate patch to have true new-style rc.d scripts in ports (without touching localpkg)

[Andrey Chernov]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 05:56:16PM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 03:24:56PM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> > Lets be realistic: Nearly nobody wants his scripts to be sourced in the 
> > startup shell, especially not in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. People who really 
> > want to do this are experts that exactly know what they are doing, and 
> > are not easily confused.
> 
> *sigh* You cannot arbitrarily declare that "nearly nobody wants his
> scripts to be sourced in the startup shell". You have no idea of knowing
> what a user might want to do with his system and what his level of
> expertise is.

That argument is against your position. If you have no idea, user (i.e. 
script) can do _anything_, I mean easily damage startup shell even without 
evil intentions. You know example - apache13. We need minimal protection, 
separating base scripts level and ports scripts level, I mean executing 
them in the subshells. There is rc.local (or a like) to do something with 
startup shell locally, not from inside ports system.

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